Philip J. Davis quotes
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“One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.”
-- Philip J. DavisSource : Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser
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“Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.”
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“In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.”
-- Philip J. DavisSource : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media
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“The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.”
-- Philip J. DavisSource : Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser
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“The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.”
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“Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do.”
-- Philip J. DavisSource : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.185, Springer Science & Business Media
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“One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.”
-- Philip J. DavisSource : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.104, Springer Science & Business Media
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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